Tommy playing the blues. He is probably most famous for this style. I never heard anyone play this fast on an acoustic. If you don't know who Stevie Ray Vaughn is and/or don't like his music you're unlikely to enjoy this. Solo performance, as usual.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQhECkexmSI This is really wild rag of some sort with Joshco Stephan - sounds like a banjo piece. Crazy stuff! I love it, but some will find it grating.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1ZPcoohH3o

There are. A lot of great guitarists on YT. Have you seen Sam Swank or Macyn Taylor? Macyn...busker12, IIRC, was especially interesting a few years,ago when she was a early teen. Now she has matured into a beautiful woman and her playing is excellent...but now instead of jeans she dresses like a woman and that is somehow distracting...at least to me...

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posted on 05/16/2014 8:41:24 AM PDT
by prisoner6
(I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered! I AM A FREE MAN!)

Tommy Emmanuel is probably the best acoustic guitar player ever. There is a Korean-American girl, Sandra Bae, who is probably going to surpass Tommy Emmanuel in the next few years. She has played on stage with him a few times and can match him lick for lick.

Check out a few of her videos on you tube.

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posted on 05/16/2014 8:44:37 AM PDT
by P-Marlowe
(There can be no Victory without a fight and no battle without wounds)

There is no substitute for time in practice, to get better, but there are some tips that make the practice time more effective. The goal really is to make playing "that" a comfortable, confident experience, and that is possible.

Fretkillr's posts were taken down for copyright infringement, but they can be found (on YT). His rendition of Somewhere over the Rainbow is excellent.

Man, I miss that guy, he was a trip. I saw him a few times in concert, some of the best jamming I ever seen, especially when he went on tour with Jeff Beck. And there he is in his gunslinger get up lol lol. “Now DRAW! oh you got me!”

Yeah that was horrible, I remember staring at the TV for like 10 minutes without moving “SRV killed in helicopter crash” and what made it worse was the guy got clean and at least to me put out the best album he ever did “In Step” and he dies. It’s always the brilliant ones, it’s never the frauds or the no talents.

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